On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 08:03:32PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > Well, if you have many such devices, yes, but one might try to live > > without such protection if there are some with very limited transmit > > needs. > > Would you then announce short preamble as the AP? That'd mean all other > stations would use short preamble and the poor non-short-preamble STA > would be left completely in the dark wrt. its NAV. Yes, indeed. In other words, this would be something that could work mostly in cases where there is a STA with very limited needs (e.g., send measurement results once an hour, etc.). I'm not aware of any such deployment, though. > Ohh. Just a few days ago I sent an email with a request for > interpretation (there really just is a typo in 802.11-2007 but...) That > got forwarded around a lot, but I guess at least TGmb will see it :) Yeah.. I'm sure it will show up in TGmb in Dallas meeting (mid-Nov). It might even get fixed eventually the 802.11-2010 (or 2011, or 2012, or who knows when.. ;-). -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
